Tips for Pokemon Diamond and Pearl

I began my PokeQuest with Chimchar, the fire monkey, and soon added a Geodude, Shinx and Shellos to my crew. Geodude, who evolves into Graveler and then Golem, is a rock/ground Pokemon who is impervious to electric attacks and stands up well against flying and fire Pokemon. His Magnitude attack wipes out all kinds of opponents, but he is useless against water and plant enemies.

Chimchar, the Diamond and Pearl answer to Charizard, is a cute monkey with a flaming tail. When he evolves into Infernape, his hairdo goes flaming, too.

Hence, I also have Chimchar, who burns through plants. For fighting water Pokemon, I captured a Shinx, which evolved into a Luxio who evolved into a Luxray—a relatively competent electric Pokemon.

You should always strive to have the basics—fire, water, ground and electric—in your party. You can combine elements (Gyrados has fire and water, Infernape has fire and fight) but you need to cover your bases.

I generally do not carry ghost or psychic Pokemon. I know, there are a lot of you out there who will swear by Alakazam and Mewtwo. But you can teach Luxray Bite—a dark attack that wipes out psychic and ghost Pokemon in a hurry.

Get your water, electric, ground and fire attacks down pat, and you will have an answer for any situation.

Tips from Nintendo

In Pokemon Diamond and Pokemon Pearl, the way Moves affect opponents have changed. Physical Moves strike the opponent up close and use the Attack stat, where as Special Moves strike from afar and use the Special Attack stat. Knowing the difference between the two greatly improves your battle strategy.

Have your Pokemon learn moves that cover its weaknesses. For example, have a Fighting-type Pokemon learn a Ice-type or Dark-type move.

Pay attention to a Pokemon’s ability. Quite a few Pokemon have more than one available to them. A Pokemon’s ability like Levitate can make the difference in a battle.

If you have taught your Pokemon the wrong move, don’t fret! There are people in the Sinnoh that can help. Try looking for the Move Deleter or a Move Tutor. These are people who can help you with your troubles.

When you receve the master ball from Cyrisis in Mnt. Coronet, DO NOT USE IT, its a wast of a good Master ball. All you need to do is stock up on Ultra ball and Timer Balls (25-40 each) and you should be fine. save your master ball for a travling pokemon such as Mispirit(or the one you can get from Full Moon Island). Once again DO NOT USE A MASTER BALL ON PALKIA/DIALGA.

i have most of the pokemon, but i want oak’s letter and the azure flute and that thing you need to catch darkrai, but i don’t know how to get them. could you tell me how? ( i have seen cresselia and caught dialga, heatran, uxie, mesprit, azelf and giratina. ialso have the national dex) plz help me!

First, when you begen your game get the best pokemon piplup. He rocks! He knows the best moves againest your opponet. Later when you get to the elite four make sure your empoleon {piplups final evovle} is about level 70, because the elite four are pretty hard. so pick piplup for your starter.

After you recieve the national dex, place your old gameboy advanced based pokemon games into the DS’s slot for gameboy advance games to unlock old pokemon in Diamond and Pearl. WARNING: the old pokemon’s locations will not show up in the pokedex so you will have to hunt around for them.

If you do include a status attack in your arsenal, make sure that it either boasts that state sharply (like swords dance), it raises two states at once (comic power), or it will boast all of your other attacks (like howl with stomp, rockthrow, and iron tail).

Gyrados is a water/flying type, not fire. Chimchar is a great starter, and my choice. Makes the first gym hard but the rest of the way is easier. I’d say the best thing is trading on the WiFi to get Pokemon from people everywhere. I’ve got 3 manaphy’s now! Get two or three pokie’s to be your HM work horses because the only good HM move for battles is Surf so don’t use HM’s on your main team! Gastrodon learns Surf, Waterfall, Strength, and Rock Smash, which is great for Victory Road! A flying type that can learn Fly, Defog, and another pokie that can learn Rock Climb, Cut, and Flash will help.

If you need a kcik bute team, you are going to need all sorts of things. One thing you would problly want would be some pokemon with a one hit ko move, I use stuff like that all the time, and it gets trainers really angry, lol. Another thing you will want would be a lot of different pokemon like fire, water, grass, and my most favorit in the world, DRAGON!! But it also depends on what kind of a trainer your are, for example I like to have as many dragons in my team as possibal, the only down fall is that if your opponint has an ice type pokemon, your problly gona die. well I hope that some of you out there will take some of my advise. Sincerlly

Your so rite you should have the same range of pokemon,but it is good to have a low lvl traveling type pokemon by your side,that way u can make a plan before u start your main attacks with your pokemon.You should choose Chimchar because he will eventually learn Mach Punch.He an also learn a well known move called Flamethrower which is very efective against ice and sometimes also water.Im also pleased to say that i have a couple good tips.The first tip is :when u get the honey try to get alot and put it over trees in the same area sometimes you get the same and sometimes you will get very rare pokemon.Also if your a little weaker then our other pokefans try to avoid the two trainer in the first gym.

Like Fridgey said, you need to keep your Pokemon at a good average level. My Pokemon are all at L25 right now. The way I order my Pokemon depends on their experience. The Pokemon with the most exp is the last Pokemon in my menu. The Pokemon with the lowest exp goes to the front of the Pokemon menu. I thank you for listening to me! Bye

When catching a legendary or rare Pokemon, do not always use your masterball. You can only get one in the entire game. Keep throwing any pokeball until you catch it. I caught Dialga with an ultraball, Giratina (Another legendary) with a timerball, and never forget—- You can never have too many Pokeballs.

I do not quite agree to the fire, water, ground, electric structure as the only good balanced team. There are lots of different ways to do it, for example bringing in strong attackers mixed with strong defenders and you don’t care about types. Type is not everything!

P.S. People who swear by Alakazam? That would be me! Alakazam is my favorite pokemon in the whole wide world of Pokemon!

I think that it is a great idea to have a well-balanced team of pokemon, and to try and include as many decent types as possible. Also, knowledge of special and physical moves is a great help for the champion and elite four. Moves like bulk up and calm mind are a great help, too, because they raise two stats at one time.

ok, then to get the national-dex (it’s a new better version of the orginal pokedex) make sure you have encounterd every pokemon on the game (there’s 150 i think) and then go and see the Proffesor, at Sandgem town, and once you talk a chatty conversation will comense, and Prof, Oak for Kanto will walk in and give you the National-dex as a reward, And here’s another little treat once you havr the new Dex the Pal-Park will become available, this is where you can import pokemon from your GBA games and use them on Diamond/Pearl. Hope this was useful Poke’Fans 🙂

Make sure that you own a well balanced poke team. it is essential for a trainer to know the characteristics of their pokemon, as well as knowing type advantages and disadvantages. my special advive is to :

keep all of your pokemon at a reasonably equal level ( dont have one pokemon at L40 and another at L20)

to keep the opposition way behind you in your journey

never include status attacks in your arsenal, unless they heal your own pokemon (eg-recover, slack off)